Alfred Nobel

Do you know what it would be like to be courageous. Teen activists have to be courageous every day. Even though some teen activists are physically or mentally abused, they still speak out, for example, Alex Lin, Iqbal, and Malala. Teen activism is people fighting for a cause that could help people and the world. Iqbal is an example of a teen activist, he was a young boy who was sold to a carpet company. Iqbal Masih, a 12-year old former child slave in Pakistan. His family sold him to the…

A powerful yet very emotional speech in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. The main character in this movie is John Nash. Nash is at the Nobel prize awards, giving a speech. The lady he stares at towards the end of his speech is his wife, Alicia Nash. The award was for one of his theory’s he had done about math. Even though he have won the award for his intelligence, he gave credit to his wife. First, the audience in the speech from the movie are all sitting in front of him. Everyone in the…

One of the most famous women in physics back in the early 1900s was Marie Sklodowska. While she was in physics, Marie won two nobel prizes. Also, she discovered the elements Radium and Polonium. Marie had to conquer many hardships to get all these awards. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warshow, Portland on November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children, and that family was already very poor. Her mother was a poor schoolroom teacher that was named, Bronislawa Sklodowska. Her father was…

had worked and studied radioactivity and nuclear fission. Meitner’s way of working and studying led to the “radiochemical discovery” of nuclear fission. Her achievement was rewarded with a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944. Meitner is often used as an example of a scientific women who was “overlooked by the Nobel committee”. Lise Meitner demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment of nuclear fusion. Lise Meitner is an…

Gertrude Stein was a poet, play writer, novelist and art collector. She was born in the United States of America on February 3rd 1874 and died in France on July 27 1946. She was much known for her novel writing skills and quotes such as, 'we are always the same age inside'. She contributed in the authoring of the famous Lost Generation. The lost generation according to Gertrude Stein are specifically the ex-patriot writers who moved out of home land to Europe so as to go and practice literature.…

A gray cloud rolls off the edge of the stage, fizzling out as it spills into the crowded hall. The audience gasps in surprise and on-stage, Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips smiles as he continues to pour liquid nitrogen across the floor. Phillips, recipient of the Nobel prize in Physics in 1997 for his work cooling atoms with laser light and a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stands in Bethel’s Benson Great Hall before a captivated audience. Phillips has worked as an…

Assignment #1 The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg for winning the Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine in 1968. They received this award for their interpretation of the genetic code, and its function in protein synthesis. Joseph Brillinger – 101012500 Khorana, Nirenberg and Holley won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein…

In his Nobel Prize speech, William Faulkner said that it is the writer’s duty to write about “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” (par. 3) and that anything other than those “problems of the spirit” are not worth writing about. The ways he lived up to the standards he set were through the characters in his book The Unvanquished. The book takes place in the 1860’s-70’s centered around the maturation of a young boy named Bayard. His resilience, maturity, and basic…

earned his doctoral degree in physics from Leiden University. There he studied his favorite subjects, mathematics and theoretical physics. Tinbergen was the eldest of five children; he would be the first in his family to accomplish the winning of a Nobel Prize, coming from one that had an academic background. Even before obtaining his education at Leiden University he won certificates indicating that he was an exemplary student. He attended a special school for the middle class and there he…

In this essay I am going to discuss Gary Stanley Becker. He was born on December 2nd 1930 in Pottsville, Pensilvania and died on 3rd May 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a major economist that received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993 for his work in widening the field of microeconomic study to include a increased range of human actions including non trade behaviour . I will discuss briefly his life and how it contributed to his work. Additionally I will aim to discuss his three main…